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COMBINED NEEDLE AND TWINE CUTTER.

No. 391,500. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

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FREMONT E. D, OF YUCGA, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

COMBINED NEEDLE AND TWINE=CUTTER.

EiPEC'IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,500, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed June 23, 1588. Serial No.277,992. (NomodcL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREMONT E.Woon, of'

Yucca, in the county of Mohave and Territory of Arizona, have invented a new and Improved Combined Needle and Twine-Gutter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined needle and twinecutter, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective device whereby packages of paper, money, or equivalent matter usually forwarded by express may be expeditiously punctured and tied with twine, ribbon, or other like material.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device attached to a desk in operative position, the

said desk being in section. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the needle. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the needleshank and twinecutter, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line or w of Fig. 3.

In carrying out the invention the body i of the device isprovided at the lower end with a threadedstub orpin, 11,which pin is adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured in the desk, whereby the said body is held in a perpendicular position. The threaded pin or stub 11 may, however, be dispensed with and other equivalent or approved fastening devices be substituted therelor. The body 10 consists of a base, 12, and a head, 13, which head and base are connected by an integral neck, 14, essentially diamond-shaped in cross-section, as best shown in Fig. 4, the opposing elongated edges of which neck are sharpened to produce a cutting-surface, and the body 10 is so attached to the desk that one of the said cuttingsurfaces 15 will face the operator.

The head 13 of the body is provided with a longitudinal aperture, 16, anda set-screw, 17, passing through the side into the said aperture, as best shown in Fig. 3. The aperture 16 is adapted for the reception of the shank 18 of the needle 19,which needle is preferably provided with a spear-like head, 20, the eye whereof is adapted to face the operator, as best shown in Fig, 1. When the shank of the needle is inserted in the aperture 16, it is held in place by the set-screw 17. If a more secure fastening is desired, the aperture 16 may be interiorly threaded and the extremity of the shank of the needle exteriorly threaded, as illustratechwhereby the needle is secured into the body and also clamped by the set-screw. I do not, however, confine myself to this constrnction.

Beneath the desk, and also preferably below the body 10, a pocket, 21, is preferably detachably attached, the purpose of which pocket is to hold a ball of twine, 22, or roll of tape or ribbon, as occasion may demand. The end of the twine or ribbon is passed upward through an eyeleted opening, 23, in the desk and up through the eye of the needle, as illustrated in Fig. l, the said eyeleted opening 23 being purposed to prevent the twine running too freely through the eye of the needle.

The package to be stitched is firmly held in both hands and brought down on the point of the needle, the perforation of the said package being preferably effected at the center thereof. The end of the thread is then taken between the thumb and finger of the right hand and retained, and the package thrown off fronrt-he needle with the left hand. The string or cord is drawn through the eye of the needle until it is of sufficient length to go around thepackage and'tie. This tying may be effected very rapidly by placing the end of the package close to the needle, about half-way down the same,- throw one loop of the twine over the needle from right to left, passing the end of the twine under the strand projecting through the bundle in such manner as that a loose knot is made about the needle. Bind this knot by an upward pull of the end of the twine which is still retained between the thumb and first finger of the right hand and the knot is now thrown off the needle, readily binding close around the end of the package. This is re peated, forming a double-tie knot. The twine is then brought down to the cutting edge or knife of the body and severed. This may be effected in one stroke. I do not confine myself to this method of tying a knot, as other well-known means may be employed. The

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above method is, however, preferred, as in 17, and the neck 14, diamond-shaped in crosspractice it has been found very expeditions. section, forming longitudinal cutting-edges, 10

Having thus described my inventi0n,what I substantially as herein shown and described. claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters FREMONT E. WVOOD.

A needle-support and twine-cutter consist- Witnesses: ing of the base 12, having the pin 11, the ap- O. O. XVILsON, ertnred head 18, provided with the set-screw B. M. 'WOOD. 

